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Service Level Management

What is Service Level Management?

The ITIL practice of setting clear business-based targets for service levels and ensuring that delivery of services is properly assessed, monitored, and managed against these targets.

Governance

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as service level management. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on service level management

Requirements naming service level management across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.

ITIL 42 controls

Service level management. Control from ITIL 4 framework, domain: ITIL 4: Service Strategy & Design.

ITIL4-02 · Service level management
ISO 20000-11 control

Service level management. Control from ISO 20000-1 framework, domain: ISO 20000-1: Service Strategy & Design.

ISO20000-02 · Service level management
HKMA TM-G-11 control

HKMA TM-G-1 IT Operations. (1) IT OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT (TM-G-1.5.1) - 24x7 operations + monitoring + service delivery + ITIL + ITSM + ServiceNow + BMC + others + operations runbooks + procedures + sound operational practices + automation + DevOps + SRE + IT s...

HKMA-TMG1-Operations-Capacity-Problem-Incident · TM-G-1 IT Operations + Capacity + Performance + Problem + Incident Management

Implement IT Project Management + Software Development Lifecycle + IT Service Management per MAS TRM Chapters 4 + 5 + 6. Chapter 4 IT Project Management - project initiation approval + business case + risk assessment + technology security review + steering com...

MAS-TRM-Project-SDLC-Service-Management-Chapters-4-5-6-IT-Project-Software-Lifecycle-Change-ITIL · MAS TRM Project + SDLC + Service Management + Chapters 4-6 + IT Project + Software Lifecycle + ITIL

Questions people ask about service level management

What is Service Level Management?
The ITIL practice of setting clear business-based targets for service levels and ensuring that delivery of services is properly assessed, monitored, and managed against these targets.
Why is Service Level Management important for compliance?
Service Level Management is a key concept in Governance. Understanding service level management helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Service Level Management?
Service Level Management appears in the requirement text of ITIL 4, ISO 20000-1, HKMA TM-G-1, Monetary Authority of Singapore Technology Risk Management Guidelines. Across these standards we have identified 5 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Service Level Management?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how service level management applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.